Maximin Isnard

Maximin Isnard (16 November 1755-12 March 1825) was a member of the Legislative Assembly and a member of the Girondists.

Biography
Maximin Isnard was born on 16 November 1755 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, in the Kingdom of France. Originally a soap factory owner, Isnard became a revolutionary in 1789-1790 and became a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Var district of the Kingdom of the French. A leftist in the National Assembly, he was an ally of Jacques Pierre Brissot and was a very violent man. Isnard's views included the deportation of all Catholic priests that did not join in the French Revolution and believed that a war with foreign countries would strengthen the revolution.

In January 1793 he voted for the execution of King Louis XVI of France, although he had stopped a mob from killing him during the storming of the Tuileries in 1792. On 16 May 1793 he was made the President of the National Convention, and although he was unable to get his resignation accepted, he was arrested on 3 October 1793 for being a member of the Girondists. On 4 December 1794 he was allowed to return to the National Convention after nearly being proscribed as an enemy of the state during the Thermidorian Reaction, and in May 1795 he was sent to hunt down fleeing Jacobins. He was regarded as a royalist because of this, and he played an insignificant role on the Council of Five Hundred. In 1797 he returned to Draguignan and was made a baron by Napoleon in 1813 for his support fo the First French Empire. On 12 March 1825, he died in anonymity in Grasse, France.